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Do you use dashboard?

Do you use Mac OS X's "Dashboard?"

  • Yes

    Votes: 41 70.7%

  • No

    Votes: 17 29.3%
  • Total voters
    58
BJB Productions

BJB Productions

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Nov 10, 2008
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Hey everyone,
I'm just kinda interested to see what people think about this. This poll is just to simply get an idea if dashboard is used by anyone still. I personally still use it, and love it. Problem is...no one devs widgets for it anymore. I think it's a great tool that Apple just needs to rework, and get devs to create for it again.

I'd like to hear people's thoughts...Post your opinion below.
 
I use it occasionally. I haven't changed any of the default widgets. I only use it to look at iStat sometimes, or the weather.
 
I use it rarely. I found a great widget for taking screenshots, but aside from that there just isn't enough useful stuff for me to bother.

Now, if there were some truly useful widgets, the kind that make common tasks much simpler, I'd be interested - but so many widgets excel at doing uncommon things.
 
iStat nano

Weather forecast

weather radar

Dow Jones stock ticker

... nothing earth shattering, stuff just a keystroke away.

The only beef I have is a lot of my widgets are web-dependant and must be updated first before you can use those that aren't.
 
Mostly used for countdown timers, weather and the shutdown timer.
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Yeah. I mostly use it as my weather center, but also use it for some other things such as iStat.
 
Tomorrow said:
I use it rarely. I found a great widget for taking screenshots, but aside from that there just isn't enough useful stuff for me to bother.

Now, if there were some truly useful widgets, the kind that make common tasks much simpler, I'd be interested - but so many widgets excel at doing uncommon things.
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Which one do you use for the screenshots?
 
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SandboxGeneral said:
I use it occasionally. I haven't changed any of the default widgets. I only use it to look at iStat sometimes, or the weather.
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Same here. IStat, weather.
 
I love Dashboard; I have a currency converter, calculator, Wake-on-LAN, iStat, Weather, Broadband useage monitor from my ISP, a couple of world clocks. But I end up not using as often as I could because I simply forget that it's there; dunno if it's because it's so subtle and "hidden" or just a mental block on my part.
 
I use it for iStat Nano, the Sunlit Earth widget, calendar and converter. I find it quite useful.
 
Here's a pic of mine...Sorry I did it quickly...
 

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One of my favorite parts of the dashboard is that I can make any webpage/section of a webpage into a widget in Safari. The possibility for widgets is endless.
 
Dalton63841 said:
One of my favorite parts of the dashboard is that I can make any webpage/section of a webpage into a widget in Safari. The possibility for widgets is endless.
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That's true, although the bummer is every time you load your dashboard, any Safari widgets reload which takes a little bit of time.
 
BJB Productions said:
That's true, although the bummer is every time you load your dashboard, any Safari widgets reload which takes a little bit of time.
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Mine take a second or two, which I'm okay with. The worst one of all is my webclip of Pandora(I couldn't find a good Dashboard widget for it), but I'm okay with it, because it takes a few seconds to start whether you use the browser or an app.
 
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